Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad: In Peace and in WarJames Baird McClure Rhodes & McClure, 1879 - 208 pages |
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... battery first struck the staggering line of Mexicans in that prairie- thicket which gives to the earliest action in the Mexican war its name . When , on the next day , the stricken , but undemoralized enemy rallied reinforcements on a ...
... battery first struck the staggering line of Mexicans in that prairie- thicket which gives to the earliest action in the Mexican war its name . When , on the next day , the stricken , but undemoralized enemy rallied reinforcements on a ...
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... battery , and the Baltimore battalion , is descending the slope , followed by the rapt attention and palpitating hearts of their comrades on the hill . Before they had reached the point designated by Mans- field , the citadel enfilades ...
... battery , and the Baltimore battalion , is descending the slope , followed by the rapt attention and palpitating hearts of their comrades on the hill . Before they had reached the point designated by Mans- field , the citadel enfilades ...
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... battery . Crawling from roof to roof , bur- rowing from house to house , literally tunneling covered ways through ... batteries ; that circle within a circle of con- stantly advancing fire , which , day after day , closed in nearer and ...
... battery . Crawling from roof to roof , bur- rowing from house to house , literally tunneling covered ways through ... batteries ; that circle within a circle of con- stantly advancing fire , which , day after day , closed in nearer and ...
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... battery of three thirty - two pounders , and as many Paixhans , finally suc- ceeded in demolishing the curtain , and shattering the redoubts and bastions and destroying half the houses on the land side . The bombs of the mortar batteries ...
... battery of three thirty - two pounders , and as many Paixhans , finally suc- ceeded in demolishing the curtain , and shattering the redoubts and bastions and destroying half the houses on the land side . The bombs of the mortar batteries ...
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... batteries , one above the other ; and the superior commands all the ap- roaches to the inferior . Here , on your right ... battery of six guns is planted directly on the road . You can not find , in any direction , a half acre of level ...
... batteries , one above the other ; and the superior commands all the ap- roaches to the inferior . Here , on your right ... battery of six guns is planted directly on the road . You can not find , in any direction , a half acre of level ...
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Page 134 - AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself; and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
Page 133 - GENERAL :-The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
Page 129 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took...
Page 136 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 131 - I have been eminently successful in this war, in at least gaining the confidence of the public, no one feels more than I how much of this success is due to the energy, skill, and the harmonious putting forth of that energy and skill, of those whom it has been my good fortune to have occupying subordinate positions under me.
Page 107 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Page 107 - SIR :—In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, SB BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. CSA To Brigadier-General US GRANT, Com'ding US Forces, Near Fort Donelson.
Page 98 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 135 - Church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.
Page 134 - I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace ; the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General. that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms th'ey will hasten that most desirable...